Ad Hoc Networks. First International Conference, ADHOCNETS 2009, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, September 22-25, 2009. Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

Compressing MAC Headers on Shared Wireless Media

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        author={Jesus Arango and Matthew Faulkner and Stephen Pink},
        title={Compressing MAC Headers on Shared Wireless Media},
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        proceedings_a={ADHOCNETS},
        year={2012},
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  • Jesus Arango
    Matthew Faulkner
    Stephen Pink
    Year: 2012
    Compressing MAC Headers on Shared Wireless Media
    ADHOCNETS
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11723-7_39
Jesus Arango1,*, Matthew Faulkner2,*, Stephen Pink2,*
  • 1: Cisco Systems
  • 2: Lancaster University
*Contact email: jearango@cicso.com, faulknem@comp.lancs.ac.uk, pink@comp.lancs.ac.uk

Abstract

This paper presents a header compression algorithm that unlike previous protocols is capable of compressing MAC headers in a multiple-access (shared) channel. Previous schemes could not compress MAC headers because the address fields are needed to identify the intended destination as well as the intended context space under which compressed headers are to be interpreted.